Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Firebird (Warner) is a routine Viennese boudoir-&Tpistol mystery which leaves the vague impression that a casual murder may be a fine, broadening influence on a woman. A conceited actor (Ricardo Cortez), who is fond of playing Stravinsky's blood-tingling Firebird, is found shot dead in his bedroom. Was he killed by his onetime wife, whom he had publicly knocked down for dunning him for alimony? Or by his neighbor Her Excellency whom he had invited to his rooms at midnight? Or by His Excellency who may have known of that fact? Or by Their Excellencies' daughter...
There have been turning-points and turning-points. But it doesn't seem as if there had ever been the feeling so strongly among the football players that so much depended on the outcome of the game Saturday. The Harvard team this year looks to a casual observer like one of the most potentially powerful aggregations seen in Cambridge for many a full moon. Whether this potential energy can be turned into kinetic energy to the best advantage remains for a dry fast field and plenty of opposition to reveal. In any event take our advice, if you're betting...
...issue of the Far East sound convincing. But it is one thing to bore your readers and another to mislead them". Such frankness is, indeed, unusual; for it is apparent that there has become a surfeit of "authoritative" pronouncements on the Far Eastern situation by each visiting professor and casual tourist. By the length of his travels in Russia, Manchukuo and China, one feels that Fleming garnered more than his share of observation and information; for he stops to note the interesting paradox of Communism in the South of China, where he feels that Communism will never be stamped...
...were 15, and their average age at such time was but 17 years. Illicit sexuality was practically simultaneous with the onset of other forms of delinquency. . . . Four-fifths of the girls entered upon unconventional sexual practices voluntarily. In the vast majority of cases these erotic adventures were shared with casual acquaintances or 'pick-ups.' Over half the entire group of 500 women had illegitimate pregnancies, and a third gave birth to children out of wedlock...
...manage." Men in the shoe factory, where she went to work at 16, found her easy prey. Promiscuity she did not realize was wrong. It was for her simply a means of getting to skating rinks, dance halls and cinemas. Grace and a friend named Edith had babies by casual sailors, gaily named their infants after each other. Grace's Edith, now 14, is beginning to show sexual problems similar to her mother...